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The psychopathology of everyday art: a quantitative Study - World ...

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over 9 years fragmentation, barrier*, switching,<br />

threat*, alert, deception*, therapy,<br />

trance, abreaction<br />

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present.<br />

Table 5: summarising general signs <strong>of</strong> psychiatric disturbance reported in case studies.<br />

No. Case description/<br />

diagnosis<br />

29 39 adult psychiatric<br />

inpatients<br />

30 177 16-71y. psychiatric<br />

outpatients<br />

31 34 adult inpatients<br />

depression &<br />

Schizophrenia<br />

Dot-to-dot geometrical<br />

figure<br />

Summary description <strong>of</strong> form reported in<br />

<strong>art</strong>work<br />

Tendency to circle in a clockwise direction<br />

(torque)<br />

Constricted or expanded figures, drawn<br />

along edges <strong>of</strong> paper, disorganised placing<br />

Right hemispheric inhibition, deformation <strong>of</strong><br />

the whole perceptive space with<br />

compression <strong>of</strong> the right and extension <strong>of</strong> the<br />

left. Left hemispheric inhibition caused<br />

initial and final p<strong>art</strong>s shift to right.<br />

Interpretation<br />

Closely associated with childhood<br />

psychosis, existing sensorimotor<br />

deficits and early cognitive<br />

dev'ment<br />

Drawing styles were found to<br />

correlate with personality traits<br />

Deformation might be based on a<br />

nonlinear distortion <strong>of</strong> the<br />

perceptive space with<br />

displacement <strong>of</strong> the initial<br />

coordinate point to the right from<br />

its geometrical centre.

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